Travels in a Thin Country by Sara Wheeler
An account of the author's six-month journey from one end of Chile to the other. Her odyssey included Christmas Day spent with a llama sandwich on the Tropic of Capricorn, a sex hotel in the capital, and a trip around Cape Horn on a supply boat delivering a coffin.
lively and sympathetic..Sara Wheeler is very well worth reading. - DAILY TELEGRAPHa perceptive and entertaining account. - NEW STATESMAN AND SOCIETYa thorougly enjoyable book with plenty of humour. - TODAYChance meetings and planned visits are described with enough imagery and dialogue to make you pack your rucksack before finishing the book. - NORTHERN ECHO
Sara Wheeler's books include the international bestseller Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica, Chile: Travels in a Thin Country,Evia: An Island Apart and The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle, which was chosen as Book of the Year by Will Self, Michael Palin, A. N. Wilson and others. She has published two biographies of travellers: Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard, and Too Close to the Sun: The Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton, and was immensely relieved to write about women at last in O My America! She lives in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780349105840 |
| ISBN 10 | 0349105847 |
| Title | Travels in a Thin Country |
| Author | Sara Wheeler |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 1995-01-05 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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